A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
Star Wars Legacies
Episode III
The Black Soul of Tarheena
The once beautiful cities of Taina are now smoldering ruins. Survivors cower in small villages unable to escape due to the Imperial blockade.
The crew of the Eagle IV has traveled to the farming world of Langdon to meet with Ren Fertain, a Tainan native, to make arrangements to evacuate his village. He claims to have knowledge about the vile plot of the Sith...
Played September 18, 2006
Characters - Caleb, HK-69 Maya (NPC), Q2-6L
Our heroes waited for Fertain in a borrowed Loyalist shuttle. Parked just outside a sleepy trading outpost they had a view of the fields for kilometers in every direction. So it was little surprise when they saw Fertain's shuttle from a distance. It was something of a surprise when they saw he had been pursued by Imperial Predator fighters. Maya flew the shuttle in pursuit, managing to take the fighters out, though Fertain's courier had crashed and was on fire. Q2-6L put out the fire while Caleb and HK-69 fought off strormtroopers.
Fertain informed them that through extensive bribery, his courier had clearance to pass through the Imperial blockade around Taina. Unfortunately, there was no way get his entire village off-world in the small courier - they had a transport big enough, but it would be sure to be shot down by the nearby Imperial garrison. He went on to explain that the Sith were very interested in the garrison, at the foot of Mount Jagos. There were many cargo shuttles leaving the garrison. The mayor of his village would tell them more...
Mayor Ror'rorr, a 200 year old wookie explained that rumors held that horrible monsters lived within Mount Jagos. During Palpatine's reign the vile High Inquisitor Tremayne had his infamous prison atop the mountain. The rumored horrors within the mountain were a good deterrent to escape - though the conditions within the prison were horrible as well, until it was destroyed by a pair of Rebel agents, the half-sisters Rissa Fleet and Kathera Tarheena, who were freeing the Aresian Jedi Master L'Norisaan from the prison. The rumors also said that whatever monsters were within the mountain were active again and allied with the Sith. If the four of them could somehow take out the garrison - or at least disable its blaster cannon, the village could escape in a transport ship.
That night the four headed out on foot for the Mount Jagos garrison. En route they were ambushed by a group of spider-like aliens - disgusting creatures using a twisted form of biotechnology - based around undead matter. These creatures used poison and bioweapons against our heroes but were eventually defeated. Q2-6L disabled a small part of the electric fence around the garrison, allowing our heroes access to the rooftop blaster cannon - which they proceeded to point down at the garrison and engage, destroying the garrison. As surviving troops tried to rally, our heroes took a repulsortruck into the black tunnel leading into Mount Jagos...
Played October 2, 2006
Characters - Caleb, HK-69 Maya Muppet, Q2-6L
Muppet had obtained from the Imperial loyalists a suitable privateer vessel. With a small skeleton crew he headed for Taina to meet up with our heroes - and to learn what sort of cargo the Imperials were picking up from Taina. Unfortunately his ship came under attack by the same spider-creatures his companions had encoutered - death cultists called the Charon. His ship was secured in a complex within Mount Jagos. Only he of his crew managed to escape the Charon.
Rendezvousing with his companions, the five worked their way into the installation. They met several Charon on their way to the central power core, using a variety of grenades, blasters, and illusions of fire to deal with them. power core was within the central counduit leftover from Mount Jagos' earlier days as a volcano. In addition to the power core they saw thousands upon thousands of Charon within hibernation chambers lining the conduit. Seeing their ship up above our heroes battled the Charon, got back to their ship, and blew away the power core - wiping out the Charon within Mount Jagos - though an uncertain number of them had already been shipped out by the Empire.
Free Taina NewsNet
Mount Jagos Erupts for First Time in 3000 Years
Taina 165:07:35
The following report is true, unfiltered by Imperial censors.
Smugglers and blockade runners in the Taina system report that the long-dormant Mount Jagos volcano has erupted for the first time in over three thousand years. A century ago Mount Jagos was the home of a prison administered by the vile Imperial High Inquisitor Tremayne. There had been many reports of artifacts made by "demons from beyond the void" within the mountain which Tremayne apparently experimented with on prisoners.
A group of Tainans from Jagos Village recently escaped the Imperial blockade. They report that Imperial activity had again resumed within Mount Jagos and a group of freedom fighters helped them escape.
